Adam Leipzig is an award-winning film producer, former senior executive at Walt Disney Studios, and former President of National Geographic Films. Over the course of his career, his projects have generated more than $2 billion in global revenue and received multiple Academy Awards, BAFTAs, Emmys, and Sundance honors, including films such as Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Dead Poets Society, March of the Penguins, Titus, The Way Back, and A Plastic Ocean.

Adam has worked at the center of storytelling, business, and global media, shaping how films are positioned, acquired, and brought to audiences. At National Geographic Films, he led the acquisition and creative direction for March of the Penguins, helping transform it into one of the most successful documentary films of all time. His work has consistently focused on creative excellence, how stories are framed, distributed, and understood by audiences at scale.

He currently produces films and documentaries and teaches at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business, where he works with global business, technology, and AI leaders on communication, storytelling, and decision-making in complex systems, as well as MBA students. His teaching and advisory work focuses on how leaders translate ideas into narratives that mobilize teams, shape markets, and influence outcomes.

Adam is widely recognized for his ability to translate how creative industries actually function, revealing the systems that determine which ideas gain traction and which do not. Through his work with creators, executives, and organizations, he helps people understand how narratives and systems interact to shape success, and how to design work that moves, connects, and endures.